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...hearings recessed at week's end, after a month of testimony, SALT II's chances in the Senate seemed perceptibly brighter. The accord's opponents have mostly failed to dent the Carter Administration's key argument that this agreement is better than no agreement. Exclaimed a White House aide: "No one laid a glove on the treaty itself...
...brighter side, businessmen note that they have fairly easy access to Carter's aides, if not the President himself. For example, after they made clear their stern opposition to Senator Edward Kennedy's bill that would ban conglomerate mergers, they were gratified that the President pointedly did not endorse it. In addition, business people are pleased that Anne Wexler, an assistant to the President, seems to be assuming more responsibility for corporate relations, and they are taking many of their problems to her. Wexler says that business, like all lobbying groups, will never get all that it wants...
...negotiating to buy large amounts of Chinese coal for a new Hong Kong generating station that will supply electricity to neighboring Guangdong (Kwangtung) province. As he gazes out at Hong Kong's beautiful harbor, he asks: "Is there any place on earth where the future looks brighter than here...
...candy store is open every day of the week," writes Asimov of those early days. "In some respects, it made me an orphan." The demands of the store cut him off from his parents; Isaac's behavior severed him from his contemporaries. For he was not only brighter than his older classmates, he was eager to make them aware of his stratospheric...
Getting a deregulation bill through Congress may take three years. Prospects are brighter for a 1979 bill giving railroads more freedom to set rates; railmen are for it. Interestingly, O'Neal doubts that rail deregulation will do much good. He fears that it would be used to hike rates, not cut them, and considers trucking deregulation more important. Since trucks haul just about everything that Americans buy or sell, he is probably right...